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Statistics is usually considered a subset of ML, except maybe by statisticians. While R definitely leads the pack on variety of useful stats packages, there ar
by sethaxen 5y ago
Statistics is usually considered a subset of ML, except maybe by statisticians.
While R definitely leads the pack on variety of useful stats packages, there are excellent tools for certain tasks in other languages. I do a lot of probabilistic programming, and PyMC in Python and Turing in Julia are excellent packages. And both languages have official Stan interfaces. Not knowing R has not been a problem for me.
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- dmicah 5y agoI'm sure it depends on your vantage point, but I would argue that ML is more likely to be considered a subset of Statistics than the other way around.
- kgwgk 5y agoLet the machine decide: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22statistics+is+a+subset+of+machine+learning%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22statistics+is+a+subset+of... 1 result https://www.google.com/search?q=%22machine+learning+is+a+subset+of+statistics%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22machine+learning+is+a+sub... 2 results Machine learning is a subset of statistics.
- usgroup 5y agoIt just means that you have problems you're not aware of :-)
- sethaxen 5y agoor that the tooling for the problems I do have is adequate in multiple languages.